I had a new version of the college anxiety dream. This time, it was the morning of graduation, and we have all been gathered into pods of ten to do various tasks all around campus. In one station, I spilled a whole bunch of water, and while ai was trying to find towels to clean it up, I lost my pod! So I was running around, trying to find my pod, I ran into another pod, and tried to get the leader to help. He just kept saying that there were no leaders, he was just an ambassador?? We did run into my pod, and they took us to the library. There was much whispering and conferring among the ambassadors, and they finally announced that we would need to re-take the SAT right then, before we graduated, because we had all taken the wrong one! But they were super disorganized and there were no test booklets and we were also not very distanced, both for cheating and COVID purposes. And no one could explain to me why or if it would affect my GPA.

You guys are making me want to make some "skyline" for dinner soon. I need to figure out which recipe apes it best...

When I was very young, we lived in Louisville. We moved to northern New Jersey and, on the first visit to the pediatrician, my mother checked up on our vaccinations (which, at that time, included polio and smallpox, but not measles, chicken pox or such). She mentioned to the doctor that my sister and I were probably due for our typhoid inoculations and seemingly he gave her a funny look and said he wouldn't know where to get the vaccine/serum. So ... one set of shots we didn't need to have.

I finally officially pulled the plug on my family Christmas travels. Four households from three states, (two states that are trending significantly upward in COVID rates) should not be getting together for in-person holidays. My sister and niece were quite understanding. The latter was expected, but the former had me a bit worried. Nice to know that wasn't warranted. After all these years she's still the cool big sister, and I dislike disappointing her. Now to plan Christmas dinner for one. It will involved beef in some form, but beyond that?

Calli, maybe a fancy sauce, some nice side dishes ... good wine?

I'm actually going to suggest that my mother and I and my aunt/uncle/cousin could actually quarantine and then get together for Christmas. We'll see what they think.

I’ve decided no meal on Christmas, but making a bunch of snacks for a full day of LAZY.

I had a dream that I was doing a semester in Paris (??) but then some friends were there and there was a teeny area that could be a dance floor and someone had put on music and I got my friend to dance with me and I was nearly crying because I hadn’t danced in so long...ugh. Fucking dreams.

Calli, maybe a fancy sauce, some nice side dishes ... good wine?

Maybe a fancy sauce involving wine? Yes, these all work. Thanks!

I had a dream that I was doing a semester in Paris (??) but then some friends were there and there was a teeny area that could be a dance floor and someone had put on music and I got my friend to dance with me and I was nearly crying because I hadn’t danced in so long...ugh. Fucking dreams.

Oh, that does sound like an awesome dream.

Oh, I think I posted Monday about the problems with my computer. I had to search the office to find a docking station that matched mine, since we have multiple models. Found one, but it has a lock on it ... one of our administrators was in and checked their list to see what the combination was, so I could take off the old lock and attach the lock that was on my old docking station. They didn't have the combination - although we were supposed to let the (long-gone) administrator know what the combinations were, so it's still sitting in the docking station. On looking at it more closely, I realized someone had to CUT the cable to the lock to move the docking station - there's a stub of frayed cable attached to the lock. So ... I guess that's why I was able to abscond with the docking station. (NB: we have locks that are on cables that attach to furniture; each has a four-digit combination. We got these - two for each person, one connects the docking station and one the actual computer - because at a previous office, we had several computers stolen, since they weren't secured at all. No we have the issue of equipment being TOO secured.)